Burlington Bulletin No 23 has photos of the yard with large piles of material
stacked up between the yard and Main St. The photos are black and white, so
it's hard to tell what color the material was. Burlington didn't have a large
cinder pit like Galesburg or Creston, so maybe they stored cinders until they
got enough to ballast the Washington branch. Can anyone familiar with
Burlington back in the day identify the material in those piles. I think the
light piles might be gravel or ballast of some type. Maybe the dark ones were
coal or cinders.
Nelson Moyer
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Subject: [CBQ] Cinders ?
Steam locos generated massive volumes of cinders. We are all familiar with
cinder pits and the ever present Gons that the cinders were loaded into. We
also know the cinders were used as fill and for ballast on branches, passing
tracks and in yards.
What I'm wondering about is how did that get done ? I mean in the dead of
winter Gons full of cinders didn't get spread for ballast or fills as that work
was seasonal. Where did cinders get staged until needed ? How did the section
foreman or road master go about requesting cinders, who decided who got what?
Were cinders kept local by each Division or did they get shipped long distances
?
Oh and what about all those cinders from power and heating plants all over the
system ?
Leo Phillipp
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